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Dhondenling and Rabgayling Elderly Homes Update During the COVID-19 Pandemic
FPMT Charitable Projects has been providing information about how the elderly homes supported by the Social Services Fund have been doing during the COVID-19 crisis. Here we provide the final reports of two homes who are, thankfully, marked safe during ... Read more »
Mastering Meditation: Instructions on Calm Abiding and Mahāmudrā
Mastering Meditation: Instructions on Calm Abiding and Mahāmudrā, a compilation of teachings by His Eminence Choden Rinpoche, is being released by Wisdom Publications on June 30, 2020. His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote in the book’s forward, “I am glad ... Read more »
Without Self Discipline, It’s Like You Throw a Bomb on Your Life
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this video by explaining that the subject of the teachings he has been providing from ... Read more »
An Update and Incredible Achievement from the Sera Je Food Fund
In 2017, after twenty-six years of the Sera Je Food Fund offering daily meals to all of the 2,500 monks of Sera Je Monastery, FPMT Charitable Projects raised and then offered a US$5.3 million endowment fund to Sera Je Monastery. ... Read more »
Ngari Institute, Ladakh, India: an Update During the COVID-19 Crisis
The Social Services Fund has been supporting Ngari Institute in Ladakh, India since 2014. Ngari Institute helps needy children from remote regions of Ladakh and arranges to send them to, currently, three different schools. The Institute arranges all the costs ... Read more »
Buddhism Has So Many Ways to Rescue Us from Suffering
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: This video begins with footage of Rinpoche, which was filmed by Richard Gere, receiving the lung of the dharani ... Read more »
How to Have Genuine Peace
The Six Perfections: The Practice of the Bodhisattvas is a new book from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, published by Wisdom Publications in March 2020. In it, Rinpoche walks us through this key Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Here’s an excerpt from Rinpoche’s teaching ... Read more »
This Perfect Human Rebirth Is So Precious Because You Can Use It to Generate Loving Kindness
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: This video begins with Ven. Thubten Samphel, discussing his early life, how he became one of the first monks ... Read more »
Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled, India, During COVID-19
Lugsum Samduling Home for the Aged and Disabled, an elderly home in Bylakuppe, India, cares for 37 aging Tibetans. The Social Services Fund has been supporting this home since 2016 with grants toward annual operating budget shortfall; and also to ... Read more »
This Perfect Human Body Is So Precious Because You Can Use It to Make Offerings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: This video starts with an introductory clip of a Losar video of Lama Zopa Rinpoche talking about a quote ... Read more »
We Hope You Enjoy Our June e-News
The June FPMT International Office e-News is ready for you! This month we bring you news about: Rinpoche Helping Us to Practice Dharma Now, How the FPMT Organization Began, Helping You Become an Inner Professional, FPMT Charitable Projects, …and more! ... Read more »